Sanitation district steps up

Posted
Thursday, November 22, 2012 2:01 pm

To the Editor:

On behalf of the officers and Board of Directors of the Mill Brook Civic Association, I want to commend Sanitary District No. 1 and its leaders, Irv Kaminitsky and George Pappas, on a job well done after Sandy.

Their trucks, even from Hewlett and Woodmere, were in our community constantly after the storm to pick up the flood-damaged belongings of our homeowners and even the regular garbage.

It is times like this when the entire Sanitary District No. 1 workers go above and beyond the call of duty. I do appreciate all the phone calls from them after the storm, to make sure we knew they would be there. We still have many streets with special pickups, and I know they will be back until it is all gone.

Sid Tanenbaum, who lived in Woodmere and owned a metal-stamping shop in Far Rockaway, where he was known more for his charitable ways than his two-handed set shot, has been honored for the past 30 years with a basketball tournament that raises scholarship money for students in the Five Towns.